Cryria and Weapons of Mass Destruction: Difference between revisions

[[Cryria]] has at various points possessed weapons of mass destruction, including now-dismantled chemical and biological stockpiles. The Kingdom also has a sophisticated civilian nuclear industry and may have conducted a potential nuclear weapons test in addition to developing a collection of delivery systems. However, it does not presently acknowledge the existence of atomic weapons on its soil.

 

Primitive chemical weapons have been used in Cryria since ancient times, however chemical warfare as a modern concept did not appear until the late 19th-century. The establishment of the Cryrian chemical warfare doctrine is largely accredited to General Elise Berggren who apocryphally drew inspiration from industrial chemical accidents she witnessed during her own impoverished childhood in Tuigar.

 

Chemical substances designated as incendiaries, explosives, or defoliants remain in CDF service. Substances for riot control are also utilized in law enforcement contexts.

 

Instances of early biological warfare occur throughout Cryrian history. During various conflicts, the Cryrian Church offered absolution and monetary compensation to plague victims who would be willingly transported to hostile lands, while hurling cadavers over the walls of besieged settlements was a common tactic. Advances in germ theory and the Great War resulted in attempts to weaponize anthrax as a means of sabotaging food supplies, but ultimately a lack of viable delivery systems hampered this.